Responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)
-Prepare project’s budgets and monitoring them in coordination with Area manager and finance manager
-Prepare the financial reports and submit them relevant Coordinators and Managers.
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Prepare information required by auditors.
-Conduct audits of projects and partners.
-prepare the yearly council budgets for the hub
-Provide reports to the Area Manager and Finance Manager on the status of beneficiary/partner accounts
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To ensure that Oxfam financial procedures are followed
-To train finance staff and partner’s staff in the hub in Oxfam agreed procedures and basic accounting procedures and bookkeeping.
Check monthly accounts in PeopleSoft as per set up deadlines
-Check monthly accounts for submission to Regional Centre and ensure that they are properly authorized, print PeopleSoft reports.
-Check the balance sheet accounts: Accruals, prepayments, creditors and debtors’ accounts to ensure they are balanced and correct
-Managing finance unit at the hub level, and ensure that team has there objective, appraisal, and capacity building plan is set up and follow up on implementation.
-Revise, audit, and process payments assuring it includes all the supporting doc’s: invoices, receipts, proof of payment, procurement doc’s, and or contracts, etc. This will require seeking appropriate authorization and insuring that all supporting documents are appropriately filed.
-Any other reasonable duties that may reasonably be requires, and in support of capacity building in the role.
Qualifications
ESSENTIAL
-Sound judgement
-Listening
-Self-Awareness
-Decisiveness
In addition:
-University Degree in Finance or Accountancy qualifications/significant relevant years of experience at this level with International Agencies or NGOs.
-Minimum 4 to 5 years of relevant experience
-Demonstrated experience of Team management and capacity building of teams.
In addition:
-University Degree in Finance or Accountancy qualifications/significant relevant years of experience at this level with International Agencies or NGOs.
-Minimum 4 to 5 years of relevant experience
-Demonstrated experience of Team management and capacity building of teams.
Desirable
-Recommends, influences and implements improvements
-Previous experience of People soft database
-Proactive in anticipating problems
-CMA is an advantage